Our friends and fellow-citizens from old England's shore, from Ireland and Scotland and Germany, form their societies of the city of New York; and why should not the State of Ohio, more important than any of these countries by this represented?
Sherman argues for the significance of Ohio's representation in New York's social landscape.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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